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Sir Roger Penrose to Give 2007 Einstein Public Lecture

Sir Roger Penrose

 "I certainly believe in the importance of conveying to the general public, as far as this is possible, something of the real nature of mathematics, not only for its increasing utility across so many areas of importance to modern society, but also for its beauty and for the inner satisfaction that it brings."

September 12, 2007

Providence, RI:

Sir Roger Penrose will give the 2007 American Mathematical Society Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics, Spacetime Conformal Geometry, and a New Extended Cosmology, on Saturday, October 6, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. in Scott Hall (Room 123) at Rutgers University. The lecture is aimed at members of the general public, and is the third in a series named in honor of the centennial of Einstein’s annus mirabilis. Admission is free.

Sir Roger is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He has made many bold innovations in mathematics and physics, among them twistor theory, spin networks, and Penrose tilings. He has also received numerous awards and honors. Sir Roger was elected to fellowship in the Royal Society of London (1972) and as a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1998). He received the Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics (with Stephen Hawking, 1988) and the DeMorgan Medal of the London Mathematical Society (2004). In 1994, he was knighted for his service to science.

In 2006 Sir Roger received the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award "for the discovery of Penrose tilings, which have captured the public's imagination, and for an extraordinary series of books." The award citation praises Penrose's books The Emperor's New Mind (1989) and The Road to Reality (2005), and states that the award "is a tribute to the way that Dr. Penrose has made the ideas behind high level mathematics accessible to large segments of the general public."

The lecture is sponsored by the American Mathematical Society, and is part of the 2007 Fall AMS Eastern Sectional Meeting, hosted by the Rutgers University Mathematics Department.

More information about the lecture series is available online.

For more information, contact:
Mike Breen or Annette Emerson
AMS Public Awareness Office
paoffice_at_ams_dot_org

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